Westfield Derby ranked 12th out of 500 shopping malls
WESTFIELD Derby has been ranked one of the most attractive shopping centres in the country.
The city's shopping mall came 12th out of 500 centres across Britain in Trevor Wood Associates' latest edition of Going Shopping – the Definitive Guide to Shopping Centres.
The report ranks Britain's top 500 shopping centres on their overall attractiveness to customers, based on factors including their size, tenants and weekly footfall.
Last year, Westfield Derby was ranked 11th. The report states that the slip is partly due to the opening of Westfield's new Stratford City shopping centre, in London.
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It also states that the centre had suffered in the face of tough retail conditions.
Other centres in the East Midlands in the report include Highcross Leicester, which fell one place to 18th; the Victoria Centre in Nottingham, which fell one place to 28th; and Broadmarsh, also in Nottingham, which dropped from 89th to 109th.
Across the whole of the UK, the research showed how the recession was having a big impact on shopping centres.
High street chemist Boots is now rated as the leading tenant in UK shopping centres, climbing from third in the table and replacing Clinton Cards.
Comments
by oscardoodle
Thursday, November 22 2012, 7:22AM
“Considering the effect that the big 'W' has had on the rest of Derby's retailers, acknowledged by both the Council and the retail sector in general, a high ranking from the retailer's own publications is rather like presenting J.Robert Oppenheimer with an award for urban redevelopment in Japan. Talk about rubbing the struggling independent's noses in it.
@hawke7, the only 'slummy' section in Derby is Green Lane, a direct result of the Westfield, since one of the retailers who had to give up on his business there due to the Westfield effect is a friend of mine. Also, the loss of parking at the top of Green lane/Babington lane due to the ring road has cut footfall there. Irongate and the Wardwick/Friargate have never lokoed better since the shop frontages were improved, and apart from Full street the only other eyesore is the Morledge, which looks just like the stretch of road from the railway station to the broadmarsh in Nottingham which you so clearly love.
Anyway, 'attractive' doesn't mean anything. The service I get from independents in the Cathedral quarter is far more friendly and efficient than the zombies in the chain stores in the big 'W' who couldn't give a slap about you since they are guaranteed a wage each month by the mighty corporations that inhabit these muzak infested monoliths. The independents need our support, and if you read the CQ Cathedral quarter magazine, you will see that the independents offer a far more enriching experience than the W.H Marks&Debenboots customer processing facilities. As for Der Vestfeldbunker, I'd rather shop on-line.”
by OllyB1
Thursday, November 22 2012, 3:17AM
“It looks just the same as all the other westfields around the country, just with less vacant shops due to RR and Toyata doing ok during the recesion. I personally think it's awful, sterile, and has ripped the heart out of Derby.”
by Derby_born
Wednesday, November 21 2012, 11:22AM
“Some people have no idea of what used to be here before the Main Centre was built
http://tinyurl.com/aoe8oa3”
by dave12548
Tuesday, November 20 2012, 8:06PM
“@hawke7
The Westfield is one of the best things to happen in Derby,lovely & warm ,nice shops, clean,lovely atmospere.
I entirely agree with you hawke7, I'm no avid shopper but the Westfield is spot on.”
by hawke7
Tuesday, November 20 2012, 7:57PM
“By all the red arrows i've got says it all a Derby folk prefer old slummy shops with the odd burnt out theatre which they want to preserve to modern shopping malls.......some people are stuck in a time warp!!”
by hawke7
Tuesday, November 20 2012, 7:51PM
“been to Notts today loads of shops Victoria centre buzzing , why no slummy shops or burnt out theatres there?”
by make_redgreen
Tuesday, November 20 2012, 6:43PM
“It's because of brown paper envelopes!”
by DoctorDeaf
Tuesday, November 20 2012, 6:18PM
“@hawke7 - Is it because hardy Derby folk like the adventure of glass falling on their heads and being told to go back into a building as it fills with smoke? :)”
by hawke7
Monday, November 19 2012, 5:37PM
“Think now ...why is Westfield busy with shoppers & old decrepit Derby dying on it's feet ?....now has the penny dropped yet . Waiting for answers!!!!!”
by Tamas
Monday, November 19 2012, 5:13PM
“@ hawke7
The rest of the city is like it is because of the wastefield. Had our planners looked ahead instead of being so short sighted, our city could have been something to be proud of. But no, they allowed the ugliest building in the city to be built and concentrated everything into it, leaving the rest to deteriorate.”